The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, June 07, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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CONVENTION BITSThe presence of William JenningsBryan and other noted prohibitionadvocates, does not appear to havedecreased the amount of liquor thatis being consumed by the conventionvisitors.Irvin Kirkwood, publisher of Kan" sas City Star and head of the Moosers of Missouri, has decided thatthings are running sweetly to suithim. "We need a'little rough stuff,"he said, "and from what I observe ofwestern Progressive delegates we aregoing to get it."The Roosevelt boosters are thepeppiest bunch here, the Burtonitessecond and - the Fairbanks crowdthird. Nobody has yet heard anycheers for Weeks or RootChicago bookmakers have madeRoosevelt the favorite in betting onG. 0. P. nomination. 1The Burton Republican Glee' clubof Columbus is for Ohio's favoriteson in both the bass and treble clefs.As they sing it, "He may not be ahero, but he is not a zero."The preparedness and safety firstIdea has captured convention hotelmanagers. They've stripped the lobbies of smashable furniture andhurlable cuspidors anent the adventof the mobs.Purple,' white and yellow suffragists are here looking like sunrise inthe Catskills.Blacksmith John Blake of Altoona,Pa., is here with his hammer out foreverybody but Roosevelt' He wantsto see His Imperial Strenuosity forgeahead.Elmer J. Burkett of Nebraska isA dragging his own vice presidentialboom around Candidate's Row bythe heels. Burkett ought to go downin history as the only man that everwanted the vice presidency and admitted it.Five of Senator Weeks' delegates"walked into Room 1313 about 3:13I in the morning looking for bad luck.JThey found it waiting for them inthe bed, in which all five of them hadto sleep.Teddy may be interested to leamthat a group of soprano gentlemenwith a vest pocket piano are pipinghim tip in all the lobbies.Ohio's backers of Theodore Burton do not take kindly to mention oftheir favorite son as- "the bachelorcandidate." They carefully refrained from putting out any campaignbuttons for Burton, lest some scoffershould designate them "bachelorbuttons."Dapper Vic Rosewater and BeauBrummelesque R, Beecher Howell ofNebraska, the Talcum powder twinsof Peacock Alley are bitter enemieson all subjects save femininity.Phew for the perfume of PeacockAlley. It's a worse combination thana village cut-up leaving a countrybarbei1 shop on Saturday night Odorsrange from the delicately insinuatingto the simply staggering.There's many a dark horse stabledon Michigan av. that will never leavehis stall. 'According to rumor, entire Wisconsin " delegation will be withHughes after first ballot Fifteen of26 delegates pledged to LaFollette onfirst ballotEXPRESS STRIKERS DENY MENHAVE RETURNED TO WORK. Striking express drivers last nightissued a strong denial of the storiesprinted in the loop press that manyof the strikers have returned to theirold jobs. They regard it as a gameof the companies, who are shy onstrikebreakers, to win back some oftheir old men.Express drivers in Milwaukee andDavenport delivered another wallopat the big companies when theywalked ont on strike yesterday insympathy withMhe Chicago union.o oElgin, III. Fred Offberg, 85-year-oldElgin beggar, was found dead inbed today clutching old overcoatwith $1,153 in bills pinned to lining.